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Morning Roundup: So... Does This Mean the Green Ranger Died in a Pool?
And, so we beat on, Mega-Zords against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. Or so says the Fitzgerald version of the Green Ranger! We saw these nerdy versions classic portraits by Hillary...
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Announcing the Sookie Stackhouse Reread on Tor.com!
On May 7th, the thirteenth (and final) book of Charlaine Harris’s long-running urban fantasy series, Dead Ever After, will be released. In honor of this momentous occasion, Tor.com is kicking off a...
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The Sookie Stackhouse Reread: Book 1, Dead Until Dark
Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse series is one of the most popular urban fantasy series around, with thirteen books, numerous short stories, and a hit television series on HBO. And it all began...
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What’s Reading For?
In the comments to my post “Is There a Right Age to Read a Book,” I noticed an odd thing. I’d written it mostly thinking about the comment that you shouldn’t read Jane Eyre until you’re thirty or...
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Statistics Prove: Yes, Actually, Being a Redshirt is a Good Way to Die
Writing for Significance magazine, Matthew Brasalou has applied a Bayesian statistical analysis to the most important question in the original Star Trek universe: is wearing a red shirt a harbinger of...
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The Fairest Of Them All: Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M. Valente
It doesn’t happen to me very often, but ever so rarely I come across a book that’s so purely brilliant that it almost stuns me, a story that’s so gorgeous and rich that I feel paralyzed: not just...
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Download Our Nebula-Nominated Stories For Free!
Though all of our stories are always available globally to read on Tor.com for free, we’re now offering a limited time FREE Ebook download of our three newly Nebula-nominated stories! The stories...
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The Hobbit Reread: Chapter 13, “Not at Home”
Welcome back to the chapter-by-chapter reread of The Hobbit. You can find past posts at the reread index, or you can catch up with our previous reread of The Lord of the Rings. As always, the...
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Gaming Roundup: Sony Reveals the PlayStation 4
Let the rumors and speculations come to an end. In a spectacular and lengthy press conference last night, Sony finally unveiled the PlayStation 4 live in New York, and revealed that their next-gen...
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The Science of Future Past: Part 6
In today’s installment of Science of Future Past, we finish up our look at Foundation with a discussion of The Merchant Princes.The Merchant Princes is one of the most exciting parts of Foundation in...
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Shattered Pillars (Excerpt)
We've got an excerpt from Elizabeth Bears' Shattered Pillars, sequel to Range of Ghosts, out on March 19:Set in a world drawn from our own great Asian Steppes, this saga of magic, politics and war sets...
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The Girl Who Died: Karen Healey’s When We Wake
When We Wake is New Zealand author Karen Healey’s third novel, after Guardian of the Dead and The Shattering. It’s an excellent YA novel. It’s also really excellent science fiction: I stayed awake far...
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Ichabod Crane Will Be a Time Traveling Detective in New Sleepy Hollow
The most iconic gaunt character of them all—Ichabod Crane—will travel through time from the 18th century to the current day Sleepy Hollow in the forthcoming Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman-penned TV...
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Reopening The X-Files: “Hollywood A.D.”
Season 7, Episode 19:“Hollywood A.D.”Original Airdate: April 30, 2000“Hollywood A.D.” is not so much an X-Files episode as it is an X-Files pageant, a presentation put together for Parents Night or...
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The Inexplicables: The Low-Down
This month is UK publication month for The Inexplicables! So WHAT you may ask IS THE SKINNY ON THIS ONE? Well, I’ll tell you, starting with an amended version of the flap copy.[Aside: Why amended?...
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The Savage Boy (Excerpt)
Take a look at this excerpt for Nick Cole's The Savage Boy, out in ebook format from HarperVoyager on February 26:Amid the Wasteland remains of a world destroyed by a devastating Global Thermonuclear...
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Read Sherlock’s “A Scandal in Belgravia” as a Disney-Style Storybook!
Artist Angela Taratua (@alassieI89) took several screenshots from Sherlock’s “A Scandal in Belgravia” and rendered them as these amazing cartoon illustrations. We were so taken with these that we...
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Grand Canyon (Excerpt)
A curious alternate future (written during WWII), take a look at Vita Sackville-West's Grand Canyon, out now in ebook format:The Second World War has been won. Germany has conquered Britain and all of...
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Morning Roundup: Remember That Time Star Trek: The Next Generation Crossed...
Over on Buzzfeed, there’s a fairly rowdy article featuring a ton of the kitschy covers of the 90’s digest, Disney Adventures. The conceit of each of these covers was essentially the same: merge a...
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Dear Joanna Russ: A Letter for an Inimitable Writer
While researching for We Wuz Pushed: On Joanna Russ and Radical Truth-Telling, I developed a passionate engagement with Russ’s astounding, provocative body of work—and I had intended, at the time, to...
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